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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Rest in peace

    March 13, 2013 /

    after half a day of ski.

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    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 8, 2016

    In a yellowtone…

    September 17, 2013

    Rocco Zifarelli, Jeff Berlin, Beth&Danny Gottlieb, Gabriela Sinagra

    June 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The perfect ski outfit

    March 12, 2013 /

    … which one is best?

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    An update on the poor Canon EOS-M autofocus

    March 30, 2013

    The Actor’s Nightmare

    August 3, 2013

    Buying Chocolate

    October 31, 2015
  • Colour,  Court,  Daily photo,  Rome,  Spring

    Waiting for the Justice to Arrive

    March 11, 2013 /

    In this hallway of the Tribunale Penale di Roma, time seems suspended. Lawyers sit or stand, briefcases at their feet, bundles of files in hand. Some engage in hushed conversation, others review notes with ritualistic precision. A woman in red draws the eye—a rare burst of colour in an otherwise subdued palette of solemnity. The title, Waiting for the Justice to Arrive, operates on two planes. On the surface, it is procedural. The court has not yet opened its doors; the judge is late, the hearing is postponed. These legal professionals must simply wait—idle, static, alert. Justice, here, is both person and principle: the judge must enter the courtroom for proceedings…

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    A Skateboarder

    November 23, 2021

    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013

    On Air

    July 22, 2014
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Chitchat under the rain

    March 10, 2013 /

    every moment is the right one, to enjoy a friendly conversation.

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    Creativity vs Originality

    March 11, 2024

    Light as Meaning Shifter

    December 11, 2019

    One Shot Story – Soulless Places

    April 17, 2025
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Rome,  Spring

    Under the Yellow Umbrella

    March 9, 2013 /

    It had just stopped raining—just enough to make the pavement shine, but not enough to fold away the umbrellas. I took this photo in passing. No setup, no waiting. Just a quiet moment shared by two people walking slowly, pushing a shopping trolley and carrying a red bag, both tucked under a loud yellow Bardahl-branded umbrella. The kind of umbrella you don’t buy, but are given somewhere and end up using forever. There’s nothing dramatic here. No grand gesture. Just two people—maybe a couple, maybe not—navigating a wet day together. The colours caught me: the dull browns, the muted jackets, that flash of red, and of course the umbrella. It…

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    A Silohuette on the Bridge

    March 3, 2014

    Uchi-Mata

    November 8, 2014

    Snorkeling

    August 24, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The sentinel…

    March 8, 2013 /

    … hawkeye!

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    Cold Night, Hot Drink

    January 13, 2014

    The Naughty Customer’s Place

    September 28, 2013

    Misfocused Photo’s Quick Fix with ChatGPT and Nano Banana

    March 1, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Bored

    March 7, 2013 /

    … why go to dinner together, just to enjoy a boring night?

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    A true cricket?

    September 16, 2013

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013

    @Rome Maker Faire – 7. Mobile Rest

    October 23, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Shops

    The Last Puff, Before the Kitchen Opens

    March 6, 2013 /

    He leans into the corrugated shutter like it’s the only stable thing in his world. Dressed in pristine whites, but already marked by the day’s fatigue, this cook steals a few quiet moments with his cigarette and his phone. The street is empty, the restaurants still closed, and everything about the frame holds a soft tension—the pause before the fire and oil, the clang of metal, and the heat of service. What struck me first was the geometry. The vertical roll-up doors, the receding line of storefronts, the bricks underfoot—all form a corridor that isolates him visually and narratively. I composed slightly off-centre to echo the disconnection between his world…

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    An interesting reading

    May 13, 2013

    When Faith Is Gone

    June 20, 2026

    The Pulse of Passion: A Story Told in Red

    August 9, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    The Alchoolist’s garbage

    March 5, 2013 /

    …

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    5 frames with a Kiev 60, a Volna 80/2,8 and a Ferrania Orto

    June 28, 2024

    Avid Readers

    November 19, 2014

    Home on the Range

    May 17, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Lonely cart

    March 4, 2013 /

    … of a potato manic

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    Singers

    February 19, 2014

    Seeking Directions

    March 18, 2013

    Mid-Knee Clinch

    July 7, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    None of my business…

    March 3, 2013 /

    Two local police agents try to block an African guy because of the CD he was supposedly selling. But this is none of our business…

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    Busy

    January 8, 2013

    Lorenzo negli stadi

    July 11, 2013

    Enough Is Enough…

    March 2, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    Enough Is Enough…

    March 2, 2013 /

    The man in the blue windbreaker is not just leaning on a railing — he’s leaning on a lifetime. I caught him mid-pause, his posture tilted forward yet anchored, as if he had been running but something — or perhaps nothing — made him stop. Behind him, others drift along the walkway, anonymous shapes in dark jackets, contrasting with his bright, almost defiant blue. Compositionally, I wanted the railing to serve as a visual guide, leading the viewer’s eye from the man into the horizon, creating a kind of bridge not just in space but in thought. The diagonal sweep of the barrier, with its graffiti and padlocks, speaks of…

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    Pipes in Colour

    May 1, 2015

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    September 5, 2021

    Mediterranean Games 2009

    June 28, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The Scooter

    March 1, 2013 /

    Trying to run faster than its shadow.

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    What Are You Looking At?

    June 19, 2014

    Venditti&DeGregori – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    August 11, 2022

    The Choir Master

    December 24, 2016
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    Who’s Carrying Who?

    February 28, 2013 /

    When I spotted the man hauling this enormous red buoy, I didn’t hesitate. The irony was irresistible—a question of balance, effort, absurdity, and metaphor all in one frame. The netted lines clinging to his shoulders mirrored the posture of a beast of burden, and yet the visual punchline lands clearly: who’s really pulling whom? I shot from above, not just for vantage but to strip away all unnecessary background clutter. By doing so, I let the geometry speak. The diagonal created by the rope lines contrasts with the rigid, blocky paving and soft curve of the buoy. It’s a clean visual split, but not sterile. There’s dirt, grit, marks of…

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    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020

    A Casual Walk

    March 6, 2015

    Wave Riders

    September 20, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A videographer…

    February 27, 2013 /

    … or a human sundial?

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    Italy, Landscape Photography and the Law – Part Two

    February 23, 2014

    Staring At The Infinite (While Waiting For The Fishes)

    August 1, 2014

    Footprints

    May 19, 2013
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    What a odd couple of bipedals…

    February 26, 2013 /

    told himself the seagull.

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    Out-of-Focus

    September 24, 2013

    Cold Stuff

    November 28, 2015

    The Doorman

    September 1, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    The Real Street Photographer: Bold and Fearless

    February 25, 2013 /

    I was walking along the seafront when this little scene unfolded: two women, a dachshund, and a child armed with a compact camera. No hesitation, no awkwardness — he simply stepped into the moment and claimed it, directing his subjects with the quiet authority only the very young can get away with. It was pure, unfiltered street photography, stripped of the adult self-consciousness that so often blunts spontaneity. Technically, the light was harsh, the midday sun cutting strong shadows across the paving and lending the image a slightly brittle feel. The Leica M9, with its CCD sensor, tends to emphasise contrast in such conditions, and here it works in my…

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    An inconvenient way to spend time.

    March 15, 2013

    Italian Track&Field Championship 2018 – The reportage

    September 12, 2018

    A Few Shots with the 7Artisans 35mm f/0.95 in X-Mount

    October 24, 2024
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A promenade

    February 24, 2013 /

    … in a forbidden place.

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    While the kids grow-up…

    July 25, 2013

    Reminiscenses From The Past

    September 7, 2013

    Personal Musing On Monochrome Digital Cameras

    September 11, 2025
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Business people in Rome

    February 23, 2013 /

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    Iron Gate

    May 2, 2013

    Servicing a Sig Sauer P226

    December 16, 2017

    After the Rain

    April 6, 2026
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    A moment of break…

    February 22, 2013 /

    I made this image at a street market in central Italy, just as the vendors were preparing for the day ahead. It was early, cold, and the air smelled of roasted chestnuts and diesel from delivery vans. These two stood silently, each holding a small cup—likely coffee—while surrounded by synthetic softness still wrapped in plastic. Quilts, towels, fleece. The kind of items whose colour is always a little too bright under cloudy skies. Technically, the shot is far from pristine. It’s handheld, slightly out of focus at the edges, and not particularly well exposed. But I’m not sorry. What it lacks in clinical sharpness it gains in truth. This wasn’t…

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    December 10, 2025

    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021

    Same Seats, Different Lifes

    April 14, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo

    Smoke is everywhere…

    February 21, 2013 /

    and is here to stay.

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    The Sorceress

    March 15, 2026

    A Sad Harley-Davidson

    August 10, 2013

    In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works

    April 4, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Street Photography

    No time for lunch at Piazza Fiume …

    February 20, 2013 /

    It was the shadow that pulled me in first—mine, cast sharply onto the boot of the car, creeping into the scene like an unwanted narrator. Midday sun can be harsh, unforgiving, but here it helped slice the moment cleanly into layers: man, car, street, façade. Rome, in its winter light, does this beautifully—sculpts with sun rather than bathing in it. The man was absorbed, cigarette in one hand, eyes squinting into the curbside distance. His posture wasn’t idle. It was tight, waiting. The shoulder bag pulled across his frame like a restraint. The frame itself is compressed—everything close, tight to the lens, from the Mercedes emblem to the man’s jacket…

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    (Not so) Intelligent Design

    October 26, 2018

    Who wants to live forever?

    June 15, 2013

    Fast Drivers in Via del Tritone

    October 31, 2019
  • Cities,  Daily photo,  Rome

    Waiting for the hearing

    February 19, 2013 /

    This frame came together in the sort of courtroom stillness that doesn’t need silence to be loud. Everyone in the picture has a role, but the image doesn’t tell you who’s who — and that’s the point. Decades ago, a robe or a tie might have done the job. Now, visual cues have flattened, and that ambiguity became the soul of this shot. None of the are defendants, though… Shot handheld with available light, the scene is dominated by the warm glow of the wood table, contrasting with the impersonal office light spilling from above. That warmth helps soften the harsh institutional lines, drawing the viewer’s eye toward the hands…

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    Mind Your Business…

    January 9, 2013

    So Long, Eos-M

    January 17, 2014

    A Manual-Focus Atteimpt on a Moving Target

    July 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Restaurants&Bar,  Rome,  Shops

    Lunchtime

    February 18, 2013 /

    It’s cold, but for a while it is better stay outside. The light was sharp and low, the kind that cuts through the chill and gives everything a brief sense of warmth. The group gathered around the table, half in shadow, half in sunlight is a familiar Roman scene: conversation, coffee, and the kind of pause that feels both ordinary and essential.

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